This week’s Illustration Friday’s topic is “Saved” which I’ve been toiling with all week. I didn’t want to do another garden picture (well that’s not true, I secretly did want to do another Garden picture) and I’ve been working so much on my Etsy shop stuff that I just didn’t want to do another drawing.

Then it hit me. All week I’ve been talking about The Green Apple Project and how it means saving the Earth, one little bit at a time. There you go! Saved!

I watercolored the green apple for The Green Apple Project a few days ago. I’ll tell you what, not to toot my own horn but when I look at my little painting, I can actually smell a freshly sliced green apple. I can taste it in the back of my throat. It’s amazing. Woot.

So here is the original water color and then the one as the logo. Enjoy!

Getting the color right was tricky. Everyone knows what a green apple is supposed to look like. Hell, it’s practically a color on it’s own (certainly it is also a flavor of Saki that I’m particularly fond of). I mixed maybe four different greens before getting it just right. The font is one I discovered a very, very long time ago (on a website far far away, sorry too long ago to remember where I got it or purchased it) called “Black Boys on Mopeds.” I’m not much of a font buff to tell you anymore about it than that.